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equal attention to distribution in the new edition of 

 Bell's British Quadrupeds, on which Captain Barrett- 

 Hamilton is engaged. Interest in the study of Scottish 

 Mammals has risen high of late, with very gratifying 

 results. 



Changes of nomenclature, like many other unpleasant 

 things, are unfortunately always with us. Some necessary 

 ones are adopted in this Supplement.^ 



Long-Eared Bat (Plecotus auritus (L.) ). 



On 3rd February 1897 a Bat of this species was found 

 dead near some rocks on the south side of Dumglow, Cleish 

 Hills, Kinross-shire, and sent to me by a friend for identifi- 

 cation. The interest attaching to the record lies in the 

 out-of-the-way and hilly nature of the locality. 



[Batterer's Bat (Vespertilio nattereri, Kuhl).] 



Eef erring to what I wrote in 1891 {Mammalian Fauna, 

 p. 22) regarding the supposed occurrence of this Bat in 

 Dalkeith Park, a roughly-preserved specimen has since been 

 discovered among some objects of natural history left by 

 the late Eobert Gray. Unfortunately no label or other 

 clue to its origin is associated with it. Although there 

 is consequently no proof of its being one of the Dalkeith 

 Bats, I think it highly likely that it is (see my article in 

 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1901, pp. 129-131). 



I would again make an appeal for Bats from well- wooded 

 localities in this area, with a view to the removal of the 

 " square brackets " from this species. 



Whiskered Bat {Vespertilio mystacinus, Leisl.). 



A welcome addition to my list was an example of this 

 Bat (received in the flesh from Mr G. Pow) which was 

 knocked down by a fisher-boy on the links about a mile 

 east of Dunbar on 20th March 1893, as recorded in my 

 note sent at the time to the Annals of Scottish Natural 



1 See papers by Oldfield Thomas in Zoologist, 1895 and 1898, and by 

 F. W. True, Proc. U.S. National Museum, vol. xxi. (1898) pp. 617-635. 



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